Resources

This initiative compiles materials that help STEM education leaders create improvements in their classrooms, transform institutions, and advance research.
Review our staff picks for timely resources related to pressing issues or use the search and categorization features to browse research, reports, and other materials.

Staff Picks

  • Characterizing Student Perspectives on Departmental Culture: The Student DELTA Survey

    Traditional Student Experience MetricsNational reports have revealed that although undergraduate education has undergone significant reform, students are not g…

  • The Value of Community Colleges: Bridging Gaps and Building Pathways to Increase Student Success

    (Video credit: CCC Marcom)Innovative Evidence-based Strategies to Disrupt the Current Community College NarrativeI was honored to be invited to talk at a confe…

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  • Connected Learning with Cognitive Maps in Sustainability Education

    NeedWhen teaching sustainability, it is important to bring together ideas from various disciplines and encourage systems thinking. One way to do so is via cogn…

  • The Future Outlook for Teaching and Learning Beyond COVID

    This panel discusses the what the undergraduate STEM landscape looks like moving forward. The panel includes a presentation on how communities can come togethe…

  • Using a Modularity Analysis to Characterize the Effective Use of Makerspaces

    Need: Makerspaces are a new and impactful tool in the engineering educators’ toolbox. Ensuring these spaces effectively grow and meet their full potential requ…

  • Using Avida-ED to Teach Evolution and the Nature of Science

    Avida-ED is a freely available digital evolution software package developed to help students learn about evolution and the nature of science. Avida-ED was deve…

  • Using quantitative analyses to understand STEM pathways of minoritized young people

    A dominant discourse in STEM education is broadening access to minoritized young people, which can parallel "achievement gap" discourse that reifies, rather th…

  • Using rigorous undergraduate research in finding dysfunctional curricular items.

    Herein we describe our successes in identifying dysfunctional curricular pieces. Our methods are embedded in undergraduate research that inform new curricular …

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AAAS-IUSE is looking for resources that will help principal investigators, faculty and other education leaders improve undergraduate STEM education. If there is a type of resource you would like to see more of, or a specific resource you would like to recommend, please reach out below.